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W. H. JOSLIN.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN.17, 1913.

1,083,403. v Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

Wi Z Z z'amjf Jbslz'm WILLIAM H. JOSLIN, OF PROVIDENCE, RI-IODE ISLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed January 17, 1913. Serial No. 742,587.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. J OSLIN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and- State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boxes in which goods are shipped and subsequently displayed, and has for its object to provide such a box havin a body portion and a cover preferably lflinged thereto, and to provide a cord of a suitable length attached to the body portion of the box, and to pass the end portions of the cord each through a suitable aperture in the cover and to form an enlargement on the string by tying a knot, or otherwise, on the outside of the cover to engage the cover and limit its opening motion.

A further object of the invention is to provide the end portions of the cord of sufficient length to permit them to be brought together and tied either over the top of the cover or around beneath the bottom of the box for the purpose of securing the cover in position when closed.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Of the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the cover closed over the body ortion of the box and secured in position y means of a cord which extends up through the cover with its ends brought together and tied. Fig. 2-

shows the cover portion in open position and supported in such position by the cords the opposite ends of which are attached to the body portion by passing through and across the outside of the bottom thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation showing the cord running along beneath the bottom of the box and up therethrough and through the cover. Fig 4. is a modification illustrating a portion of a box and showing this supporting cord as passing along the bottom of the box on the inside thereof out through the end walls and thence up through an aperture in the cover portion and having a knot bringing up on the outside to support the cover in open position. Fig. 5 is another modification showing the cord as being knotted on the inside at the end of the body and passing outward through the end wall and upward through the cover.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates the body of the box which may be made of any suitable material, but preferably of the usual cardboard type having a bottom 11 and side and end walls 12 and 13 respectively. The cover 14 is preferably hinged to the body portion at 15 and adapted to swing down and over the body to close the same.

My invention consists essentially of the provision of a cord 16 which may be made of a shoe string, or other suitable material, and to attach the same to the body portion of the box in any suitable manner. The middle portion ofthe cord 24: is illustrated in Figs. 2 and 8 as extending along the bottom portion of the box and up through aper tures 17 and 18 therein and thence out through corresponding holes 19 and 20 in the cover, the cord ends at this point are preferably knotted as at 21 or otherwise provided with an enlarged portion, so that this enlargement will engage the stock about the aperture of the cover and limit its opening motion, the end portions 22 of the cord being of sufiicient length beyond the knot so that when the cover is closed over the body por tion and the strings drawn outward through the apertures therein, that these strings will have suflicient length to be connected together by tying as at 23 in Fig. 1 over the top of the box to bind and hold the cover in closed position, or if desired, the strings may be carried over the ends of the box, as illustrated in dotted lines at 26 in Fig. 1 and then brought together and tied across the bottom of the box.

I do not wish to be limited to any particular manner of fastening the strings to the body portion of the box as the same may be carried across the body portion thereof either outside, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, or inside as illustrated in Fig. 4, or the ends of the cords may be passed through the sides of the box as illustrated in Fig. 5 and secured thereto by knotting, cementing or otherwise. The essential feature of the invention is that the cords are attached to the body and extend through apertures in the cover portion and are each provided with an enlargement adapted to engage the cover and limit its opening motion, and to be drawn up through the cover when the latter is closed over the body portion, and the end portions of the cord fastened together for the purpose of securing the cover in closed position.

I claim:

A box comprising a body portion having openings therein, a cover hinged to said body portion and also having openings therein, a cord extending across the bottom of said body portion and through the open ings therein, the ends of said cordbeing also passed through the openings in said cover, the ends of said cord above said cover being of sufficient length to be tied together to secure the cover in position when closed, said cord being provided with an enlargement adapted to engage the cover to limit the opening movement of the latter.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. J OSLIN.

Witnesses:

HOWARD E. BARLow, E. I. OGDEN.

Copies of, this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

